How to Create a Tight 5 Minute Set (in 5 Steps)

This video is a live joke writing exercise to help you learn how organize a tight 5 minute set that gets you booked.

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[bumnjsv]

Start and end with your best jokes
Perform with a lot of confidence
1 laugh every 20 seconds at least
Transcribe your set and underline your punchlines
Rehearse a lot and with distractions
Get on the stage

[johnokeeffe]

Rehearsing with distractions is an amazing bit of advice, so obvious yet I've never tried doing it!

[rrrrrrrrrrrrram]

Love the final tip - a lot of new comedians want a How-To Be Funny guide, but are deadly afraid of the stage.

[SamBassComedy]

These are really great tips. I suck, but I don't really suck suck because I already do all this. I might suck a lot less in the future because of this.

[robertdais]

Great feedback to rehearse with distractions & to write out your jokes & highlight where punchlines expected! Appreciate this post!🎉

[billywalker]

This is great, I love it. Thanks very much

[andrewrtl]

These videos are a God send. I will be performing my first Amateur Night at a comedy club in a week so I'm doing my best to prepare and these videos have been super helpful!

[ThisIsWheelLife]

I just joined your Facebook group the other day.

[wheatontea]

This is sound advice Joel. I just did 6 minutes at a showcase at Zanies Rosemont. This is hard work what you are describing but it separates people who have success and people who won’t have success.

[hamhead]

No. Don't rehearse when you're driving. Focus on driving. You might not make it to the gig you're rehearsing for.

Love your channel ❤️

[ComedianMoGreen]

If your jokes are based on things that actually happened in real life, you don't necessarily have to transcribe the entire joke in long hand form.

The joke is something you actually experienced. The words will be embedded in heart and memory.

I use bullet points to trigger said memories, so I don't have to transcribe. But that's just my method.

Try to write jokes based on things you actually experienced. The comics that just make up shit sound mechanical and you can tell they are reciting a script.... you can't fake what you really went through.

[Jokenword]

I’ve been doing longer sets as of late... Gotta get back into doing tight 5s.. 🥴

[angelamoe]

I want to feel confident doing a set.. my friends and fam heard the set so many times they don’t have any more laughter. When I do my set In front camera by myself… I feel weird … when no laughs I can’t get the cadence back

[SirBamBam]

should you get to the funny or introduce yourself in a 5 min

[ramoncorrea]

A lot of this is very similar to public speaking skills.

[BobbyBTV.]

are you on the floor or is your dog bed really high

[kuldeepsinghlabana]

How we can become legend and increase our lpm up to 10 or 12

[andrewcbuensalida]

Ricky Gervais please. And Conan O'Brien

[Billy-]

Rule of thumb is from the cold war days. If you saw a mushroom cloud and you could cover it with your thumb you would probably be safe from radiation.

[davidlanier]

Jim Gaffigan has a tight 5 with 45 laughs...
Just saying.